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quote:Hail and Well Met! Welcome to the ImaNewbie does Britannia, Collector's Edition. The disc probably cost me about $30 at the time, I remember I got a t-shirt with it, too. I highly doubt I have any pictures of that. The disc was supposed to be gold-colored and signed, which was neither. Anyway, to view it, download the following zip file, extract it into a folder, and then run index.html. Enjoy! https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0GxXJ5YITa8YmJnOEdqcHR1eWc Edit: Apparently the "update" zip survived, so you can copy and paste this and replace it to get the last two toons: http://web.archive.org/web/20070909132314/http://www.imanewbie.com/sales/cdupdate1.shtml (P.S. If anyone wants to host it, be my guest) MageMage fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 3, 2016 |
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Why did you buy this?
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 20:01 |
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Humor was hard to come by on the internet in 2001. I remember reading this way back when, along with Lum the Mad's... blog? Website? Geocities page? whichever, back when UO was the game to play. It has not aged well.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Why did you buy this? I was a stupid teenager who obsessed over Ultima Online way too much. Also, I liked the T-shirt. I was the best-dressed sophomore at my high school.
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 20:09 |
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This was extremely my jam when I was a kid. They don't make 'em like UO anymore.
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 20:13 |
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poo poo, I remember hanging out at their house on the Atlantic? shard. After people worked out how to make aquariums from suspending fish in different coloured sets of cloth and poo poo. I was about 12 I think and did some crappy roleplay. Was one of those marble villas with a terrace etc. I think
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 20:44 |
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Oh my, I remember this. I don't know if I want to remember this but I do remember it.
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 21:58 |
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NLJP posted:poo poo, I remember hanging out at their house on the Atlantic? shard. After people worked out how to make aquariums from suspending fish in different coloured sets of cloth and poo poo. I was about 12 I think and did some crappy roleplay. Was one of those marble villas with a terrace etc. I think He was Pacific, all the RP events quickly became about how he was there. Whatever, though, I was 12 and ate that poo poo up.
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# ? Dec 2, 2016 22:53 |
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I liked B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 00:23 |
Was ImaNewbie a series? How did this get published?
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 03:04 |
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I don't think I ever had as much fun in anything else as I did on the christmas server where we immediately all formed gangs that just collected piles of colored robes or something.
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 04:14 |
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Holy poo poo, the OP brings back so many memories of when I played Ultima Online back in 2000.
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 05:24 |
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My favourite is when the dragon tamed him instead.
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Cuntellectual posted:Was ImaNewbie a series? How did this get published? It was a CD that was offered towards the end of the Imanewbie.com website. When it was first announced, you could buy it in a bundle with a t-shirt:
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 10:57 |
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Cuntellectual posted:Was ImaNewbie a series? How did this get published? It was basically a webcomic. I don't think "published" is the right word.
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 18:37 |
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This was recent enough that PayPal existed, but old enough that yellow Comic Sans on a black background was acceptable design?
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:This was recent enough that PayPal existed, but old enough that yellow Comic Sans on a black background was acceptable design? PayPal's been around for a long time, and Comic Sans will never die Like I can guarantee you'd still be seeing a lot more of it if professionally-made webpage templates weren't abundant and free E: like a lot of goons, I've been on the internet since the early 90s- cool and weird to see a relic of the old, wild, [56k NO], nerds club internet around. Post more weird "old" internet stuff from a CD-ROM please OP!
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# ? Dec 3, 2016 23:36 |
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The real relics of the early internet are under construction and skull gifs that took 2 minutes to load.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 01:22 |
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quote:Note: The .zip file update below was scanned with the latest version of Norton Anti-Virus 2002 and latest virus signatures before I uploaded it to my site. This is the ONLY site with an authorized version of the update. Do NOT download this update from any other site as I cannot guarantee it will be virus free! Guys I think we're safe
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 02:02 |
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holy poo poo, this thread just took me back to 1997. I read ImaNewbie all the time. That and Lum the Mad.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 04:53 |
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 05:10 |
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Completely seriously captures what Ultima Online player interactivity was like in the late 90s. And I wouldn't change it one bit.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 05:24 |
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fethers
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 05:48 |
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UO was cool but it couldn't live up to the cover art look at that crazy poo poo
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Adam Bowen posted:UO was cool but it couldn't live up to the cover art I remember seeing that in a pc gaming magazine and losing my poo poo over it. To be fair, it's a really good drawing.
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 09:08 |
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I'm pretty sure it did live up to it though
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 09:38 |
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Teikanmi posted:I'm pretty sure it did live up to it though My first experience with Ultima Online was getting pked in town before I had even figured out how to move because near launch UO was Raph Koster's first clueless attempt to make an mmo where the players could engage in the magic of friendship/sandbox it. (Star Wars Galaxies was his second try. Dude is almost adorable in how he thinks people will be in mmos.) This meant it was Grand Theft Sosaria with a realistic mob spawn system that failed miserably because it thought people would have like 2-300 people a server an hour or so. Yeah it had lots more. Even if you didn't want to be a virtual sociopath there weren't enough critters to fight, not even deer! 2nd Age tweaked poo poo a bit and actually had a goddamned manual to read. Still was open pvp. I mostly ran with a dude named Boba Fett because mmos. (Another PC we saw a lot was Jenna Jameson the Sausage Queen. It was still the 90s and thus time for Klax. And massive PC upgrades every year. Now you just swap gpus every 2-3 years for 250ish till your mobo won't accept the current gen.) Did some actual RP poo poo. Renaissance fixed the GTA poo poo but by this point everyone moved over to Everquest because it was 3d and other players couldn't abuse you freely. The game itself did that! (Asheron's Call was the best of the big 3 of the time.)
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 11:36 |
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Charles Mansion posted:I liked B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd
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Captain Rufus posted:My first experience with Ultima Online was getting pked in town before I had even figured out how to move because near launch UO was Raph Koster's first clueless attempt to make an mmo where the players could engage in the magic of friendship/sandbox it. (Star Wars Galaxies was his second try. Dude is almost adorable in how he thinks people will be in mmos.) Real talk though, SWG was loving awesome right before Jump to Lightspeed
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 11:57 |
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I'm still waiting for UX:O, op
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 19:18 |
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I remember when the UO2 trailer was the most baddest of rear end things I'd ever seen at the time. All that UO stuff in this matrixy steampunk future, all flipping round with swords etc. Didn't worry me that it didn't, well, show the game. Still the highlight of PC Gamer demo discs for me though.
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Captain Rufus posted:Everquest because it was 3d UO tried to compete at the time, and failed miserably: I think I have the UO:3D beta disk somewhere.
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# ? Dec 5, 2016 10:08 |
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I remember seeing a Third Dawn dance emote, and thinking it looked like someone folded a playing card in two places.
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I never knew anyone who used the Third Dawn client.
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Midnight Voyager posted:I never knew anyone who used the Third Dawn client. It was awful in every way, and the new lands sucked. Also this thread makes me feel young again. Thanks.
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NLJP posted:I remember when the UO2 trailer was the most baddest of rear end things I'd ever seen at the time. All that UO stuff in this matrixy steampunk future, all flipping round with swords etc. Didn't worry me that it didn't, well, show the game. Still the highlight of PC Gamer demo discs for me though. For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWumht6AuZo
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# ? Dec 6, 2016 02:44 |
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UO was a tight game. You need to look at the Galad griefing(and the Galad the good) comics and there was also a flash movie site that used to make UO flash videos that was pretty popular. http://looterslair.com/category/uo-episodes/ some Galad stuff, its about the same. They cut out all the everyday known logic for UO so they jump a bit. I found the flash movies also because the guy had a memorable character, http://www.wtfman.com/mcd/main.htm. His website is dated as hell! he knew about the front page Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Galad was good poo poo, too. (I say, not having read it in longer than I can remember) And I take it back, I knew one person who used the Third Dawn client entirely for comedy value. There was apparently... I want to say the swamp dragon only had unique art in it? There was more than one thing, I think, that only looked unique in Third Dawn, but they eventually changed it because nothing could convince anyone to use it. Anyway, there was some confusion because the Third Dawn guy didn't know this.
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Charles Mansion posted:I liked B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd yeh these were good i was Cookie Monster on Lake Superior/Great Lakes
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